The addition of Will Muschamp at defensive coordinator makes it obvious that Auburn will be running an entirely different scheme next season, and with it, a lot of the 4-2-5 base formations will go out the window with former defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson.

Auburn may have offered a cursory glimpse at what the defense might look like against Wisconsin, a team that uses so many tight ends and heavy formations that the Tigers broke out looks they haven't used all season.

Auburn used three formations/personnel groupings the Tigers hadn't used before: A 4-4 look, a 3-4 and a goal line package that had just one defensive back on the field.

The 4-4 was simple. Auburn's "Star" position moved into an outside linebacker's spot on the strong side, and a safety -- usually Johnathan "Rudy" Ford walked down and occupied the spot on the other side, giving Auburn four linebackers and three defensive backs lined up in the secondary. The Tigers used these sets most against Wisconsin's heavy sets.

Auburn's 3-4 looked essentially the same, but with a different wrinkle. Instead of lining up Ford near the line of scrimmage, the Tigers dropped a defensive end -- usually either Gimel President or Elijah Daniel into a two-point stance a yard or two off the line of scrimmage and outside the line, creating an extra linebacker, as the remaining three defensive linemen split the difference across the line.

For most of the season, Auburn has used a goal-line set that featured five defensive linemen, two linebackers, a Star, a safety and the boundary cornerback. Not against Wisconsin. In those situations, the Tigers used six defensive linemen, three linebackers, Justin Garrett at the Star and Jermaine Whitehead on the single receiver outside.

Gabe Wright took 30 of his 65 snaps at defensive end, or 46.2 percent, his highest percentage on the outside since he played 86 percent of his snaps out there against the Razorbacks.

Freshman Tre' Williams saw his first extended action on defense since the LSU game; in conjuction with that, Garrett started at the Star, really the first time he'd played the position since midseason himself.

Derrick Moncrief moved into the Star position for the first time in his career. With he and Garrett handling the run-down duties of the Star, two-year starter Robenson Therezie was relegated mostly to a nickel back's role.

Joshua Holsey, so important to the defense through most of the season, did not play a snap on defense, largely because Auburn stuck with Jonathon Mincy, Ford and Whitehead at their three positions. The only defensive back who substituted was Trovon Reed for Jonathan Jones at times.

Miscommunication still played a role. On Melvin Gordon's 51-yard touchdown run on 4th-and-1, Cassanova McKinzy was trying to move Ford into the gap on the other side of the line that Gordon eventually exploited for the touchdown run; it appeared that Ford was out of position.

Now, on to the unofficial snap counts for the Outback Bowl, beginning with a reminder of the methodology behind these snap counts: If a player misses a game due to injury or suspension, the game does not count against his average; if he doesn't play due to coach's decision, it does; A player is listed only at his primary position, even if he takes snaps elsewhere; All snaps are counted, even plays nullified on the stat sheet due to penalty, as long as the play isn't stopped by flag pre-snap.